British MGs in the Falklands War

[mrclark303]

Afternoon Mr H,

It never ceases to amaze me how much industrial espionage, copying and outright eye watering waist goes on in Defence circles....quite astonishing.

My friends company also sells measuring equipment to the Defence aerospace sector, this is a typical story involving one of the companies he deals with......a typical example of wasting our money (I am sure your goodself and Peter could add many more tales to this one)

Certain maintenance items for the Tornado GR4 were ordered by a desk bound fighter pilot at Abbey Wood, £3,000,000 worth. These items were supposed to be collected from said company by the MOD...but were never picked up....fast forward two years, a different mahogany bomber pilot ordered the same amount of gear...he was told the last lot never got picked up and were still in storage with the company.......short silence on the phone, followed by.... "Don't know anything about it, make some more"....!!!

This must be a depressingly familiar story to you chaps!!!

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[tankhunter]

Afternoon Mr H,

It never ceases to amaze me how much industrial espionage, copying and outright eye watering waist goes on in Defence circles....quite astonishing.

My friends company also sells measuring equipment to the Defence aerospace sector, this is a typical story involving one of the companies he deals with......a typical example of wasting our money (I am sure your goodself and Peter could add many more tales to this one)

Certain maintenance items for the Tornado GR4 were ordered by a desk bound fighter pilot at Abbey Wood, £3,000,000 worth. These items were supposed to be collected from said company by the MOD...but were never picked up....fast forward two years, a different mahogany bomber pilot ordered the same amount of gear...he was told the last lot never got picked up and were still in storage with the company.......short silence on the phone, followed by.... "Don't know anything about it, make some more"....!!!

This must be a depressingly familiar story to you chaps!!!

Hello Mark! only just scratching the surface of cock up's & extrortionately priced equipment for the M.O.D there Mate!

& not forgetting my Favourite maxim which sums up Governments worldwide!...........'Saving Pennies, & wasting Thousands'!.................